Review of newly released report on Uvalde massacre | Texas Dem convention a flop – Pratt on Texas 7/18/2022

The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas House committee fact-finding report on the massacre at Uvalde’s Robb Elementary School is out and I’ve read it all, footnotes included. I noted five major takeaways as I read and highlighted the report (these are in addition to some of the more obvious covered by most media:)

1. Our open border played a big role due to the “crying wolf” syndrome.
2. While the ISD had a “good” active shooter plan on paper, it was not used in practice which is what happens to much expensive planning done by bureaucracies.
3. Special law enforcement training may be a good but such training didn’t make much of a difference at the scene in Uvalde. (Same for teachers on campus security.)
4. Our secular and Leftist culture is a BIG part of the problem, not in just forming these killers, but in everyone else not reacting to clear signs of problems. This “don’t judge others” culture intimidates people into a social blindness and in this case “the attacker,” as the report calls him, was a flashing strobe light of concern for this exact crime.
5. And this is an old one but still true: When seconds count, police are minutes away. This leads to the idea that the only way to truly mitigate the actions of evil killers is to have a tool on one’s person that stands a good chance of stopping them at the place and time they initiate an attack.

There are many more points to ponder in coming days.

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The Texas Democrat Convention was largely a bust – they couldn’t even keep a quorum on a Saturday to pass the platform. About all they did that gained attention was (illegally?) remove a conservative-leaning media outlet from the event. (video)

“I went to the Democratic convention in Texas this week and the delegates got really drunk and left without giving us a platform.“

And, other news of Texas.

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